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• It is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. --Napoleon I
• Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. -- Napoleo
• There is only one step from fanaticism to barbarism.
• To be complacent is to be but one step from decay. -- Gilt Proto
• Sublime tobacco! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- The Island, Canto ii, Stanza 19...
• May your life be sublime.
• Don't be ridiculous!
• curtation n. The enforced compression of a string in the fixed-length field environment.
  The problem of fitting extremely variable-length strings such as names, addresses, and item descriptions into fixed-length records is no trivial matter....